As if they haven't had enough headaches in New Jersey in the past week, this morning they can add earthquake to the list.

The magnitude-2.0 temblor struck at 1:19 a.m. and was centered two miles south-southeast of Ringwood, New Jersey, not far from the border with New York. The depth was 3.1 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The agency logged 11 responses from people who said they felt the quake across seven zip codes in New York and New Jersey. Quakes in the eastern U.S. – even small ones like this – are typically felt over a larger area than quakes in the western part of the country, the USGS says. Quakes occur less frequently in the eastern U.S. than in the West.

No damage was reported from Monday's quake.

The largest quake ever recorded in New Jersey was a magnitude-5.3 temblor in 1783, according to the USGS.

I think a magnitude 2.0 quake is less shake than a 18 wheeler rolling over the road in front of my house, if not for sandy, this will not even see the light of the day in new reports, sensationalism much CNN??

It's probably a direct result of the Sandy flooding. When any geologic fault that is pre-stressed has an introduction of extra fluids, this serves to reduce the normal stress across the fault (lessen the friction, as it were) and allows it to slip if it was stuck before. This area is not new to small earthquakes so this isn't unusual. People who study reservoir systems have long known about this sort of behavior.

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